The film “Freaks” and the story “Spurs” both had an affective theme, however one theme is better than the other. The film “Freaks” displays a theme of loyalty, friendship, and confidence. “The film blurred out abnormality and immorality,” according to Doug Cummins essay (source B). The story “Spurs” displays a theme of disloyalty and selfishness. Both pieces of work display different themes for different reasons.
In the film “Spurs” “people from hoboes to sideshow tramps, finds beauty not in the physically whole, but in authentic pinheads, armless women, legless men, Siamese twins, and others give the film its title.” (Source E) “Freaks” is a film that shows abnormal people being there for each other no matter what. In the film, Cleo wanted to marry Hanz for his inheritance even though her true love is Hercules. All of the freaks came together to defend Hanz and let Cleo know what being a freak is truly like. Hanz betrayed the freaks, however the freaks still defended him and hoarded off the normal, selfish cleo who was taking advantage of him. Also in the film, the freaks chant to Cleo “Gooble gobble, one of us” - an invitation she frantically declines.(Source A) Cleo clearly doesn’t want to be a freak.
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Jeanne Marie makes fun of Jacques because he is so small and Simon, which is Jeanne’s true lover gets killed by Jacques. After all of this happens Jeanne and Jacques continue to be married and carry on with their lives. The theme in this story compares nothing to the film. Jeanne only wanted Jacques for his money, which is extremely selfish. The whole story is about
Francis Macomber is a middle age man that is good at court games such as: tennis or squash, competitions where there are set standards and rules for play. Also, there are confined areas of play for his games. He is quite wealthy and some say handsome which add to Francis masculinity. His wife on the other hand does not think that much of him and thinks of him as a coward. Margot on the other hand his “beautiful wife”, whom really does not like Francis but stays with him anyway. She cheats on him and despises, basically because he married her only for her looks. Margot on the other hand is part responsible for the same thing because she only married him for his money. They are both stuck in a situation because they both married for the wrong reasons. Their gender roles are sort of fighting against each other because she doesn’t care about the relationship and cheats; and he tries to prove that he is a man and yet fails because he tries too hard. Masculinity is something that Margot and others at the Safari think it is an aspect of manhood that Francis lacks.
Starting as a journalist that does what she is told Julia breaks escapes the boundaries of her marriage: by no longer doing as Bertrand tells her to do, and no longer falls victim to his appearance by having sex after they fight. By doing this she feels free to to overcome society's rules, as many people are telling her to stop after she has written her article of the Vel d’Hiv, and starts to look for
This conversation between the girl and her father shows how she views Gaston as gross and odd. Another instance of symbolism occurs when the little girl and her dad are discussing their homes. The girl claims, “It’s nice, but it’s a lot different from our home.” Later, the girl also comments, “It’s kind of like Gaston’s house.” These few lines of dialogue from the girl illustrate how she views her dad’s home as unusual. By comparing her dad’s home to Gaston’s, it represents how she sees her dad’s home as abnormal. After the young girl squashes and kills Gaston, the dad understood he lost the battle between him and the mom. He felt defeated—“like Gaston on the white plate”— these thoughts from the dad reveal how he feels he lost to the mom, similar to how Gaston lost the battle to the girl. In each example, the unique character feels defeated; this
Once discussed as objects of exoticism, empathy, and fear, the discourse about freaks in contemporary society remains the same, but we now have different spaces in which freak culture is discussed in.
Blanche Dubois the main character of the play, was an English teacher in Mississippi. She presents herself as a very prim, proper, and prudent person. She once proudly told her sister Stella that her name in French meant white woods. Blanche Dubois is also overly concerned with her appearance, accessories, bathing and age. She was very disturbed by the light, and usually preferred to be in the dark. Many believe it was to prevent people from noticing her real age. Deep inside she was hurt and destroyed. All of this pain was caused by the death of the love of her life. She was married to a young man named Allan, and they loved each other very much. Until one day Blanche found out that Allan was sleeping with another man. Once she confessed to him she knew his secret he committed suicide. Ever since, Blanches’ life was never the same again.
They both are thought to be a freak or crazy, as they do not fit the normality. As Marie-Laure is blind, and Etienne has agoraphobia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. They both lost someone that was important to them in a world war. Etienne lost his brother during World War I, and Marie-Laure lost her father during World War II. They fell broken because of the one person that understood them and that was there for them was gone and they did not know how to handle it because they when though everything together. As the story goes on you get to see Etienne’s and Marie-Laure’s relationship get strong and they began to mend the damage, and become support systems for each
Les Misérables (1862), a novel set in early nineteenth century France, presents a story of obsessions in honor, love, and duty, and through it redemption and salvation. It is the story of the poor Jean Valjean, condemned to an unfair amount of time in prison and a life on the run for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. The kind act of forgiveness from a Bishop with whom Jean Valjean stays one night, changes the course in which he chooses to live his life. Under a different identity, he becomes wealthy from a business he starts and later is elected mayor of the small town of Montreuil. He falls madly in love with Fantine, one of the workers in his factory. Because Fantine, one of the very poorest and most pitiful residents of Montreuil, has a child born out of wedlock, Jean Valjean as the respected mayor must keep his love for her a secret. When Fantine dies unexpectedly, Jean Valjean vows he will raise her daughter Cosette, and shield her from all the evils in the world. Through all of this, Jean Valjean is being pursued by Javert, a policeman whose entire life has been dedicated to finding Jean Valjean. While running from Javert, Jean Valjean and Cosette find themselves in Paris in the middle of the 1832 Revolution. As Cosette matures, she falls in love with Marius, a young revolutionist. Despite the objections of Jean Valjean, Cosette continues to secretly visit Marius at night. During the revolution, Marius is injured badly and Jean Valjean, after finding a love note from Marius to Cosette, quickly comes to the rescue of the wounded gentleman. Eventually Jean Valjean and Marius' Grandfather consent to the wedding of Cosette and Marius. In this novel, "there is a point at which...
In Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed, the reader is given a deep psychological portrait of a women's failing marriage. Not only does Beauvoir show us the thoughts and confidences of one beset by inner turmoil, she also portrays for us the marriage as it appears from the outside. The main character in The Woman Destroyed is the narrator Monique. She has been married to her husband Maurice for over twenty years and is trying to keep herself emotionally together after the realization that he is having an affair. Other characters the author introduces are the couple's two daughters, Colette and Lucienne. Colette has recently married and moved out of her parent's house. Lucienne, the younger of the two children, has moved to America to live an independent life from her family.
In the play King Lear, Shakespeare presents the reader with many negative views of society, and of human nature. One of the few bright spots in the play is Kent, a very loyal and honest man. Through Kent and his actions, Shakespeare shows the reader the nature of true loyalty.
Freaks is a struggle between separate institutional ideals for power. The two bodies from the “freaks” (Cleopatra) and the “normal” (Hans) people are representative devices. Cleopatra and Hans allow the other access to themselves through their romantic endeavors. Cleopatra seeks fortune from Hans, upon whom she attempts to poison. She disrespects Hans, seeing only him only for his money without considering his emotions as she would a “normal” person. As Cleopatra’s body is morphed into a bird and Hans does not die from her poison, she is outwitted: she experiences the loss of her agency, while Hans only loses some pride.
The play is about a young woman, Catherine who had been taking care of her father during his last years of life. Anne Heche plays Catherine. Prior to this play, I have never seen Anne Heche in any acting performance. I have to say she did an outstanding job in her portrayal of Catherine. She did a fantastic job of immediately drawing you into Catherine’s world. She aptly portrays the characteristics of a girl who never got a chance to grow up and the slight madness of the genius she inherited from her father. One can easily feel sad for her because after all she gave up all her dreams to take care of her ailing father. Anne Heche plays Catherine so well that it easy for you to fall in love with Catherine and desire only good things for her.
...es and thinks that her hopes will not be destroyed. Thirdly, Blanche thinks that strangers are the ones who will rescue her; instead they want her for sex. Fourthly, Blanche believes that the ones who love her are trying to imprison her and make her work like a maid imprisoned by them. Fifthly, Blanche’s superiority in social status was an obscure in her way of having a good social life. Last but not least, Blanche symbolizes the road she chose in life- desire and fantasy- which led her to her final downfall.
Throughout history, society has had an impact on how everyone views things, especially who is “normal” and whom is a “freak”. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word freak as “a person, animal, or plant with an unusual physical abnormality” (n.2). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines the word freak as “a person regarded as strange because of their unusual appearance or behavior” (n.2.1). The last definition that the Oxford English Dictionary gives is “a person who is obsessed with or unusually enthusiastic about a specific interest” (n. 3). The meaning of the word freak has been a rollercoaster, it’s meaning has meant both positive and negative things. “Freak,” has always meant someone who is not considered “normal” and a source
From then onwards we start to witness the strange drama along with the tone of its characters filled with love and tragedy. Which includes Catherine’s sudden marriage with Jules, which gives a start to adjustments to be held between their emotional and sexual bond in the passage of the years to come.